Arbat

Reading notes

• To Ye. M. Shavrova, 22 February 1892. Moscow. §3 Arbat, Nikolsky Lane, his own house

  Urusov's address, given so that Shavrova may reply to him directly if she prefers not to answer through Chekhov; the Arbat is a historic central Moscow district. "Nikolsky Lane" and "his own house" ("собст. д.", i.e. his own private house, not a rented flat) are address detail not separately entified.

• To A. I. Urusov, 6 February 1891. Moscow. §6 Arbat, Nikolsky Lane

  Nikolsky Lane (Никольский переулок) is a short side street off the Arbat, one of central Moscow's oldest and most fashionable residential districts; Urusov's own house stood there. The corpus does not maintain a separate entity for the lane itself, folding the address into the broader Arbat district entity.

• To A. I. Urusov, 4 March 1891. Moscow. §7 Arbat, Nikolsky Lane

  Nikolsky Lane (Никольский переулок) is a short side street off the Arbat, one of central Moscow's oldest and most fashionable residential districts; Urusov's own house stood there. The corpus does not maintain a separate entity for the lane itself, folding the address into the broader Arbat district entity, as in the earlier letter to the same address.

• To A. I. Urusov, 3 May 1891. Moscow. §10 Arbat, Nikolsky Lane

  Nikolsky Lane (Никольский переулок), a short side street off the Arbat where Urusov's own house stood; the corpus folds the address into the broader Arbat district entity, as in the earlier letter to the same address.

• A Terrible Night §8 the Arbat

  A historic district of central Moscow, here described as one of its most God-forsaken corners.